Welcome to Grange Park Opera

“West Horsley Place is a glorious and sprawling ancient house, grand but welcoming, formal gardens with secret corners for picnickers and gazebos, a sense of history and occasion, a crinkle crankle wall extending the length of one garden and beyond into the orchard (too majestic to describe) and barns and outbuildings and aged trees and box hedges. What happens there will be a gift to lovers of opera, as well as the young audiences who will be attracted to all the other projects and events which will breathe new life into this demi–Eden.”Joanna Lumley

Porgy & Bess

George Gershwin

Porgy & BessGeorge Gershwin
Date: 8 June - 7 July 2019

With songs such as Summertime, It Ain’t Necessarily So and I Got Plenty of Nuttin', Gershwin created an indisputable masterpiece. Porgy (Musa Ngqungwana) tries to rescue Bess (Laquita Mitchell) from the twin threats of her abusive partner and her drug dealer. Will Porgy’s love be enough to conquer Bess’s demons? The odds are stacked against him, but that won’t stop the noble Porgy from trying...

Hansel and Gretel

Engelbert Humperdinck

Hansel and GretelEngelbert Humperdinck
Date: 23 June - 10 July 2019

The forest is a dark place – as Hansel & Gretel discover when they go to pick strawberries and end up as potential dessert themselves. It might be a fairy tale, but Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera presents the haunting themes of the unsettling Grimm story with a good dollop of icing on the cake – together with enchanting music.

Don Carlo

Giuseppe Verdi

Don CarloGiuseppe Verdi
Date: 6 June - 9 July 2019

A bitter father-son rivalry ignites in the Spanish court in the grip of the malign Inquisition when Don Carlo (tenor Leonardo Capalbo) finds that his intended bride, Elisabetta (American Marina Costa-Jackson), has been promised to his father, King Philip II (Clive Bayley). What follows is a meltdown of molten intensity.

Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato
Date: 11 July 2019

Possibly the world's most glamorous opera star Joyce DiDonato is a consummate artist.
Grange Park Opera is honoured to welcome Joyce for the 2019 summer season where she will cast her exquisite magic on the exquisite Theatre in the Woods.